Jailed: belt thug who beat victim at BlackBerry house party

Jailed: belt thug who beat victim at BlackBerry house party

Jailed: belt thug who beat victim at BlackBerry house party

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Brutal: Juranir Gomes-Monteiro holds a belt after the attack in Homerton

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Jailed: Juranir Gomes-Monteiro

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Violence: Gomes- Monteiro Is at the very top of the street. He was not with the initial knife men and followed in with the belt

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Street fight: Gomes-Monteiro is at the back of this group at the extreme top of the picture. The cyclist is an innocent bystander

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Belt: he turns to look back towards the victim laying on the ground

A house party that was advertised on BlackBerry Messenger ended in brutal violence, with gangsters crossing London to gatecrash and a policeman holding shut a teenager’s gaping knife wounds with his hands.

Pictures of the chaos emerged today after Juranir Gomes-Monteiro, 18, was jailed for nine years for his part in a mob attack. He was captured on CCTV swinging a belt which he had used to beat his victim on the street.

A judge commended two police officers for saving the teenage target’s life, by stemming the flow of blood and rushing him to hospital in a squad car.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard how police arrived at Edmeston Close, Homerton, in the early hours of 28 Oct-ober after a 999 call from neighbours reporting a party out of control.

The one-bedroom ground-floor flat was “shoulder to shoulder” with about 50 people, up to 40 of them uninvited. Police believe many of the gatecrashers were affiliated to south London-based gang the Portugese Mafia. An argument caused by an earlier “gang incident” led to a fight at about 3am. Drawers were raided for knives, blood was left smeared up the walls, and furniture was smashed. The brawl spilled outside and two teenagers were chased.

One escaped with minor stab wounds but the other was rounded on by a large group and suffered more than 11 injuries, mostly from knives. The mob stamped on his face and beat him with belts, tearing the skin off his face.

The court heard one of his leg wounds was “spurting blood”. He was so close to death that Pcs Timothy Hickford and Kevin Rowland, the first officers to attend, did not wait for an ambulance and put him in the back of a BMW police car to take him to hospital.

With riot police being sent in to control the crowd. Pc Rowland drove while Pc Hickford put a hand on each of the worst wounds and used his weight to apply pressure. The life-saving actions were commended by Recorder David Holborn as he passed sentence.

Hackney CID later identified Gomes-Monteiro, of Hackney, from DNA on a hat left at the scene and CCTV footage. The camera shows him walking away with a belt swinging from his hand. He denied GBH and carrying an offensive weapon but a jury found him guilty. On Friday he was given nine years’ jail for GBH and 12 months for the weapons charge, to run concurrently. The victim and a key witness were so terrified of the gang they had to be summonsed to court, and the witness only agreed to give evidence from behind a screen.

Police are hunting other attackers and are appealing for witnesses. Ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.